White v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
116 F.2d 312 · 1940
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 7 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably White v. Murtha (1967), Olga Zdanok v. The Glidden Company, Durkee Famous Foods Division, Frank T. Alexander v. The Glidden Company, Durkee Famous Foods Division (1964)
62 federal appellate · 7 district · 10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Helvering v. Clifford · Helvering v. Gowran · Messenger v. Anderson · Le Tulle v. Scofield · Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York v. Elize Maud Hill E C
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not enough ... that [the moving party] could now make a more persuasive argument .... “[M]ere doubt on our part is not enough to open [up] the point for full reconsideration.” The law of the case will be disregarded only when the court has “a clear conviction of error” with respect to a point of law on which its previous decision was predicated.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) General Rule. — The grantor shall be treated as the owner of any portion of a trust, whether or not he is treated as such owner under section 674, whose income without the approval or consent of any adverse party is, or, in the discretion of the grantor or a nonadverse party, or both, may be— (1) distributed to the grantor; (2) held or accumulated for future distribution to the grantor ; or”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.